The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-05-26
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF
Else here Than in Generous Old North
Carolina.

Carolina.
Ex-Governor William Smith, famliarly
known as Extra Bill Smith," died at his
home in Fanqier county, Va, last week.
Aged eighty seven years =. The first Bes
semer steel rail ever made of Southern
iron i'll Southern city was rolled on Sat
urday, May Z, at the Roane Iron Works,
in Chattanooga -. There is a big scare in
Louisiana over a greatly exaggerated re-
port as to lepl osy =. There are 65, 900
persons reported to be i'll Europe awaiting
transportation 10 this countr, The
Southern Press Association met in Rich
mond last Thursday, at the Exchange
Hotel. President Grevy. of France
has taken steps to form a new Cabinet.
80. The Confederate monument was
unveiled ut Hopkinsvllc, Ky, last week
in the presence of an audience of several
thousand persons, iel ~ W. Grady de-
iNertd The. GRAFTON.
1t is learned that the trustees of the
Ohio State University have made propo-
sition to exPresident Hayes to take the
presidency of the University Mr.. VIM.
O'Brien, editor of the United Ireland, who
Is now III Canada, has been having d
tough time among the Canadians He
has been dodging brick-bats the whole
time -. There is sa! Ia be an exten
hands and tenants in South Carolina
who have determine | to strike for higher
wages and lower rent about the first of
June. and let the crops spoil unless their
demands are granted. Mr.. Edward
Morris, of the Fairbanks Canning Com
pany, of Chicago, cables from Paris that
ne has concluded IA contract for 800, 900
klos of canned meat for the French army
and 5000, 900 kilos for the navy. This is
stated to be the largest contract ever made
with an American firm by a foreign gov
ernment
The Financial Secretary of India has ad
vised the government of the discovery Of
an immense amount of treasure, estimated
at over S25, 900, 900, which had been Sc
creted in the palace of Gwalior by the late
Mahara ah. The Indian government has
taken the hoard as a loan from the young
Maharajah. The native papers protest
against this action of the government.
Dynamite cartridges were exploded under
church at Springfield, Ky, where Rev
Mr.. Duncan was delivered Prohibition
address. Forest fires in Michigan it is
estimated caused a loss of about three
million dollars. The Standard Oil Com
pany is the greatest monopoly the world
has ever seen. 1t has $3.50, O0O, 900 capi
tal and its profits are enormous.
The new Florida Senator, Pasco, is 53
years old and served in the Confederate
army. He is q lawyer. wa- President of
the last Constitutional Convention and is
we'll off in fortune. He is an Englishman
and succeeds an Irishman Mr.. Glad
stone will not visit our country. Says he
is too old DIR. Herr is the inventor of a
telephone that can be made at the cost of
62a cents. The City of Mexico has had
a $500, 900 bank robbery. All that has
been made public about the theft is that
the officers of the institution on coming
to the bank one morning found the doors
of the vault wide open, with nothing but a
few bags of silver remaining.
Mrs, Annie Boyd, of Grand Rapids,
Mich, covered $1,000 damages from a
rumseller, who sold her husband liquor,
under the influence Of which he killed i,
man and was sentenced to prison for life.
-. DIR Brown-Sequard, ~ho was at one
time Il professor in Harvard College, has
been chosen to succeed the late Mons.
Paul Bert, as President of the Paris So
ciety of Biology. -. 1t is said that Charles
A. Dana is to retire from active service on
the New York Sun at the close of the year,
and that he Will be succeeded by his son,
| Paul